Ira Stanley BASSETT

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BASSETT, Ira Stanley

Service Number:	QX4829
Enlisted:	20 November 1939
Last Rank:	Lance Corporal
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	MELBOURNE, VIC, 14 February 1918
Home Town:	Not yet discovered
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
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World War 2 Service

20 Nov 1939:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, QX4829
24 Oct 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, QX4829

Advanced his age to sign up

My father Stan Bassett revealed in later life that he had claimed to have been born in 1918 whereas in fact he was born on 14 February 1919. This was because his mother refused to sign his enlistment papers, which would have stopped him from enlisting. By claiming to have been born a year earlier, he was able to sign the papers himself. It meant though that when he turned 21 in the Middle East he could not share this information with anyone because, in theory at least, he had already turned 21 a year earlier.

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